Re-representing African pasts through historical archaeology

American Antiquity

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 53-70

  Schmidt, Peter R ^a   Walz, Jonathan R ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

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DOI: 10.2307/40035298     Document Type: Article

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